Search Results: Autographs from Bristow and Garland

4 1/2 x 3 1/2 inches; traces of mounting to the reverse.

His signature and 'Christmas Day 1942 (1941) (a Mistake)'

Tenby, May 16th 1885. Pre-addressed to the Hon. Secretary, Exhibition of Women's Industries, 20 Park St. Bristol. Narrow band of cloth tape affixed to upper margin where once attached to the pictures wrapping.This exhibition, the first of its kind, i.e. entirely devoted to the arts and industries of women only, was organised by the Irish suffragist Helen Blackburn (1842-1903).

To "My dear Sir" "I return you by this post your Book with many thanks for all the interesting occupation it has afforded me. I think I have seen a long time since that Book of Drexelius which you mention and perhaps at some future time I should be glad to avail myself of your kind offer to let me see it again, but just at present I happen to have a good deal on hand......."etc. Stinchcombe, March 17th 1847. Identified on last page in an early hand "Divine & Poet Isaac Williams". Mounting stub on margin of last blank. Very good. An uncommon autograph.

"It is truly reviving to see the awakening of mind in the common people……". One page 8vo, on lilac paper. Dated Clapton, Nov. 7th 1845. Mounted on a leaf from a Victorian album.

"....you wish for my autograph, which you will find within in the shape of a song, taken out of a play of mine called 'A Sicilian Summer". On the conjugate leaf Taylor has written the two stanzas of six lines each; The Roost [Bournemouth] 7th May, 1875. Laid down on a Victorian album leaf.

New Court, Temple, 30th Oct. 1880. 1-side 8vo. "I have asked Mr. Seaton, a Cambridge man of much legal and academical knowledge and skill whether in case the Leeds Ladies Association still are in want of a lecturer to give them four lectures on the Legal Disabilities of Women. He is willing to do so on the terms you mentioned to me and I believe he has much interest in the subject and the Ladies would do well to secure his services......" . He then gives Seaton's address on the conjugate leaf.

March 25th 1871. 1-page 8vo, conjugate blank removed. He writes: "I am much obliged to you for your kind letter, which I have printed among my testimonials. It cannot fail to tell much in my favour".

1-page 8vo on mauve paper. Dated Oct. 13, 1845. Mounted to a leaf from a Victorian album.

"......I understand you have kindly offered to write in my behalf with respect to the Chemical Professorship at Woolwich - Should you happen to be acquainted with Col. Portlock, Inspector of the Royal Mil. Academy, your recommendation of me to him would be of service to me.....Col. Portlock wishes to make his recommendation to the Master General of the Ordnance on Tuesday next...". St. John's College [Cambridge], 20 Feb. 1852. Sealing wax mounting marks to blank verso of integral leaf; neat repair to lower blank fore-corner of third side.

"I am sure I should be very ungrateful, as well as very ill bred - if I could hesitate about complying with a request made in so flattering and polite a manner ……I beg leave therefore to say that this is my genuine handwriting and that I wish it were better both for my own credit and for that of your collection……………". 24 Moray Place, Edinburgh, 24 Nov. 1847. Laid-down by the blank conjugate leaf to a leaf from a Victorian album.

He writes to Edward Coleridge - in a postscript to the letter he writes after Coleridge's name "Rev? Dr. or Esq? I know not which" - " I wish it were in my power to accept your kind invitation to Eton College on Friday next, and kill a Trout in the Thames, but I can do neither - I have higher games in view! - a Salmon in Wales.....". Mounted stub to margin of address panel. The writer identified in an early hand on lower margin.

"I love the present, - but the past / Hath such a spell around it cast ……". Inscribed in another hand on lower margin "Robert Montgomery, Author of Luther". 1-page 8vo on blue paper, mounted to a leaf from a Victorian album. Undated. 'Luther', his last long poem, appeared in 1842.

100 Lancaster Gate, 9th November 1868. 1 page 8vo tipped on to part of an album page; some foxing, usual folds. Accepting an invitation to dinner "and to be introduced to your home & its inmates".

"I am quite ashamed to have been so long in sending you the information you want: but since my return there have been 400 pages of proofs to correct, I know not how many letters to write & - notwithstanding its microscopic size - my parish to engage our hand...". Kennington, Oxford, March 25th 1872.

14 Russell Square June 5th 1885. Pre-addressed to the Hon. Secretary, Exhibition of Women's Industries, 20 Park St. Bristol. Narrow band of cloth tape affixed to upper margin where once attached to the pictures wrapping.This exhibition, the first of its kind, i.e. entirely devoted to the arts and industries of women only, was organised by the Irish suffragist Helen Blackburn (1842-1903).

No place, February 15th no year: "Sir, I am most anxious to hear how Her Royal Highness is. Hope in God your Royal Highness' accounts are good today. I am with the highest sense of duty your Royal Highness' most sincerely, Lauderdale".

"I should have written already yesterday to beg you to make my most sincere thanks to Miss Burrard for the excellent study of a lily she has so kindly drawn for me, it is capitally done & will answer my purpose to a nicety & If I were not afraid of being indiscreet I should like to ask a second from her & draw me a wreath of roses for the head of the Saviour- but this would be perhaps encroaching on time & kindness. My return to Lyndhurst will depend a good deal on Aide's movements, if he returns for the winter, as I hope he may, I shall probably go down in November......Shall you be at Lyndhurst then?" . Saturday, no place or date. Inscribed in another, contemporary, hand at head of first leaf "F. Leighton 1863". Remains of mounting stub on inner margin. Leighton was engaged at this time in painting the altar piece fresco, of the Wise and Foolish Virgins, for the newly built church at Lyndhurst. Miss Burrard was a resident of Lyndhurst, as was his friend… Read More

"Admit Rev'd E. Sdney & Mrs Sidney to all the Lectures of the Royal Institution during their residence in London. 4 1/4 x 2 1/2 inches; sealing wax to reverse. n.d. c. 1845.

11 Clifton Park Road, October 26th n.y. 1-page 8vo laid down by the blank conjugate leaf to part of an album page. To "My dear Madam" writing that she hopes to attend a meeting.